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April 18, 2006

The Washington Times: Tool of Haters

It is fairly well known that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon owns the Washington Times and United Press International (UPI). Moon's gift of the Washington Times to Republicans has cost Moon $2 billion dollars since 1982 to keep it afloat, making Moon a VIP on the right.

Moon also happens to be extremely homophobic.

Rev. Moon delivered a speech in 2004-JAN at the Cheong Pyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. He allegedly said, in part: "There will be a purge on God's orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows. Gays will be eliminated, the 3 Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the communist purge but at God's orders."

So it should come as no surprise that today's issue of the Washington Times is the only news outlet running an optimistic story about the efforts by Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage (AFM) to convince Congress to pass an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment.

Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Mel Martinez of Florida, John Thune of South Dakota and David Vitter of Louisiana all support the amendment and were elected in 2004 in place of Democrats who voted against it. Mr. Daniels said his strategy is to keep inching along and holding votes until the measure is eventually approved.

"You're going to see our momentum continue to grow, and it's going to reflect Washington catching up with the rest of the country," he said, citing the 40 states that have approved either laws or state amendments defending marriage, as well as seven more states expected to follow suit soon.

His group's national strategy -- assembling a liberal-conservative coalition uniting black, white and Latino religious and community leaders who strongly support traditional marriage and the amendment -- has worked so well that they're replicating it in 16 key states, he said. AFM wouldn't list the states, but the plan is to train coalition leaders and send them back to the states to build the local coalitions.

With all that in mind, consider this. I do not remember hearing much, if anything about Republicans speaking out against the rabidly anti-gay Fred Phelps, and I even spent a good deal of time this morning trying to find anything like that. I did find a few Christian statements about his tactics, but nothing condemning his beliefs. However, it appears that Republicans finally have found a sufficient reason to attack him. Phelps has turned his attention to holding anti-gay protests outside our soldiers' funerals, thanking God for their deaths on behalf of a country that supports the rights of homosexuals. Republicans are not outraged because Phelps hates gays, but because he is being disrespectful of our fallen soldiers.

Let's summarize here. The Reverend Moon's newspaper is pressing for an anti-gay marriage amendment. He is a GOP VIP. Moon donated $250,000 to Bush's 2004 campaign. The President has voiced his support for an anti-gay marriage amendment, which is being promoted by Republicans (and a few loony Moonie Democrats). Republicans will not speak out against even the most hateful anti-gay activity unless it occurs at military funerals. And they've said nothing at all about the Reverend Moon's prophecy that a genocide against homosexuals is planned.

This is critical stuff, people. We cannot allow people who suppport or are able to be bought by the Reverend Moon to continue to gain control of America's domestic policy. It's high time we take a good look at who this Moon guy really is.

Posted by Becky at April 18, 2006 09:27 AM

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